Intermittency in the solar wind turbulence through probability distribution functions of fluctuations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1801-1804

  Sorriso Valvo, Luca ^a   Carbone, Vincenzo ^a   Veltri, Pierluigi ^a   Consolini, Giuseppe ^b   Bruno, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOLAR ENERGY; VELOCITY; WIND; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR WIND; TURBULENCE;

FLUCTUATIONS; INTERMITTENCY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

SOLAR WIND;

FLUID TURBULENCE; INTERMITTENCY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC-FIELD INTENSITY; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES; NON-GAUSSIAN; SOLAR-WIND TURBULENCE; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

EID: 0032735949     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900270     Document Type: Article

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